Coast to Coast 1980  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn K. Redeker, Michael Lerner, Maxine Stuart, William Lucking, George P. Wilbur, Ellen Gerstein, Patricia Conklin, David Moody
Madie Levrington (Dyan Cannon) and trucker Charles Callahan (Robert Blake) travel cross-country with their enemies in close pursuit.
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 Fun with Dick and Jane 1977 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon, Allan Miller, Dick Gautier, John Dehner, Mary Jackson, Walter Brooke, Fred Willard, Sean Frye, Hank Garcia, James Jeter, Maxine Stuart, Selma Archard, John Brandon
This is not the story of a couple who takes adversity lying down. After Dick Harper (George Segal) loses his job unexpectedly, his wife, Jane (Jane Fonda), joins him on a crime spree. As armed robbers, they manage to maintain their accustomed manner of living.
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Like Father, Like Son 1987   PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rod Daniel
Cast: Dudley Moore, Kirk Cameron, Margaret Colin, Catherine Hicks, Patrick O'Neal, Sean Astin, Camille Cooper, Micah Grant, David Wohl, Maxine Stuart, Bill Morrison, Skeeter Vaughan, Larry Sellers, Tami David, Michael Horton
A surgeon (Dudley Moore) accidentally places a few drops of an old Indian mind exchange potion into his Bloody Mary. He and his son's (Kirk Cameron) minds are thus exchanged. What then happens is inane as each tries to cope with being in the other's body. Punch lines fail, and so does this film.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue 1975  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley, Sylvester Stallone, F. Murray Abraham, M. Emmet Walsh, Ivor Francis, Maxine Stuart
This Neil Simon film is about an executive, Mel (Jack Lemmon), facing a nervous breakdown following the loss of his job. This is a very entertaining movie and has the added bonus of future stars playing minor roles. Among them are Sylvester Stallone as an alleged pickpocket and F. Murray Abraham as a taxi driver.
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 Winning 1969  PG, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas, David Sheiner, Clu Gulager, Maxine Stuart, Karen Arthur, Robert Quarry, Ray Ballard
Capua (Paul Newman) puts winning above everything else and spends more time with his racing team than he does with his wife, Elora (Joanne Woodward). The racing scenes in this film are excellent and provide an exciting backdrop for Elora's brief affair.
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| 1. Coast to Coast (1980)
2. Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
3. Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971)
4. Like Father, Like Son (1987)
5. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
6. Winning (1969)
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